THE BIRDS OF SOUTH-WEST AND PENINSULAR SIAM. 199 



" Iris blackish brown ; bill pale whitisli slate, cuhueii dark ; 

 feet bluish slate." 



Total length 485 ; wing 239 ; tail 187 ; tarsus 37 ; bill from 

 gape 68 mm. 



It is unprotitable to discuss the races of tliis woodpecker until 

 a series from Java is available for comparison. In the meantime we 

 use this name for all the continental birds. The Bornean race, ap- 

 parently distinct from the present one, has already a name, M. 

 millleri (Bp., Consp. Av. 1, p. 131, 1850), and it is therefore im- 

 probable that any mainland form is identical with the Javan one. 



Young birds have the bill j)ale throughout and the throat and 

 foreneck cream. A first year male from Bandon has the forehead 

 washed with red and the foreneck sliglitly tinged with the same 

 colour. 



292. Thriponax javensis javensis (Horsf.). 



ricus jacensis, Horstield, Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii, 1821, p. 175 (Java). 

 Picas nuixwius malayensis, Bland, Journ. Asiat. 8oc. Bengal, vi, 



1837, p. 952 (Johoie). 

 T/tri2M7tax javensis, A., p. 135 (Laynab to Malewoon) ; 0. ii, p. 27 ; 



B., p. 72 (Junk Seylun or Puket) ; F., p. 47 (Tiang) ; Hargitt, 



Ibis, 1885, p.°148 (Malewoon). 



The Trang example (a female shot cit Chong on 11th Decem- 

 ber 1909, wing 222 mm.), is interesting, having a few of the feathers 

 of the rump faintly tipped with white, while Hargitt (Cat. Birds 

 Brit. Mus, xviii, jj. 499) records an adult from Malewoon having the 

 rump feathers white with a subterminal band of black. Both birds, 

 of course, show the commencement of gradation to T. j. feddenl. 



293. Thriponax javensis feddenl (Blanf.). 



3IaUeripictis feddeni, Blanf ord, Journ. Asiat. Hoc. Bengal, xxxii, 

 1863, p. 75 (Burma, probably Ava) ; Hargitt, Ibis, 1885, p. 154 

 (Petchaburi). 



Thriponax javensis feddeni, Stresemann, JSTov. Zool. xx, 1913, 

 p. 321 ; I., p. 95 (Kovth Siam). 



2 ad. Koh Lak, Rajburi, S. W. Siam, 9 April 1919 (No. 5187). 



!• Gyldenstolpe, Kimgl. Sv. Vet. Akad. Handl. M. Baker, Journ. N. H. Soc. Siam, iii, 1919. 



56, No. 2, 1916. (first parti. 



J. Hnbinson, Journ. F. M. S. 'Sins, vii, 1917. Baker, Journ. N.H. Soc. Siam, iii, 1919. 



K. KIdss, Ibis, 1918. (second part). 



L. Koliinson and Klobs, Journ. N.H. Soc. Siam, Wl, !• Baker, Journ. N.H. Soc. Siam, iv, 1920. 



iii, 1919. (third part). 



VOL. V, NO. 2, 1922. 



